{"id":787,"date":"2009-09-28T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/SQL-Server-2008-High-Availability-whitepaper-published-on-MSDN.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:52:14","slug":"sql-server-2008-high-availability-whitepaper-published-on-msdn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/sql-server-2008-high-availability-whitepaper-published-on-msdn\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2008 High Availability whitepaper published on MSDN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">The 35-page whitepaper on high availability I wrote for the SQL team over the summer has been published on MSDN. It&#8217;s a 2-300 level whitepaper that describes the various high-availability technologies in SQL Server 2008 and how they can be used to mitigate disasters. It&#8217;s chock-full of links to other whitepapers, technical articles and Books Online sections and also presents my methodology for planning\u00a0a high-availability\u00a0strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">You can get it at <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ee523927.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ee523927.aspx<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Enjoy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Here&#8217;s\u00a0the table of contents:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Introduction<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Causes of Downtime and Data Loss<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Planned Downtime<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Unplanned Downtime and Data Loss<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Planning a High-Availability Strategy<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Requirements<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Limitations<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Technology Evaluation<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">SQL Server 2008 High-Availability Technologies<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Logging and Recovery<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Backup, Restore, and Related Technologies<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Partial Database Availability and Online Piecemeal Restore<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Instant File Initialization<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Mirrored Backups<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Backup Checksums<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Backup Compression<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Other Single-Instance Technologies<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Online Operations<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Database Snapshots<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Hot-Add Memory and CPU<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Resource Governor<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Multi-Instance Technologies<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Log Shipping<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Transactional Replication<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Database Mirroring<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Failover Clustering<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Combining Multi-Instance Technologies<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Virtualization<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Mitigating the Causes of Downtime and Data Loss<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">High-Availability Features Supported by SQL Server 2008 Editions<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Conclusion<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 35-page whitepaper on high availability I wrote for the SQL team over the summer has been published on MSDN. It&#8217;s a 2-300 level whitepaper that describes the various high-availability technologies in SQL Server 2008 and how they can be used to mitigate disasters. It&#8217;s chock-full of links to other whitepapers, technical articles and Books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,32,33,40,46,52,58,64,65,75,76,86,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backuprestore","category-database-mirroring","category-database-snapshots","category-failover-clusters","category-high-availability","category-involuntary-dba","category-log-shipping","category-partial-database-availability","category-partitioning","category-replication","category-resource-governor","category-sql-server-2008","category-whitepapers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SQL Server 2008 High Availability whitepaper published on MSDN - Paul S. 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